
Snacks & baking
Kuih talam
A two-layered rice cake, one green and fragrant with pandan, the other white with salted coconut milk. It is soft, slightly wobbly, and enjoyed as a traditional Malay sweet.
Ingredients
Ingredients
Couche blanche
Couche verte
Instructions
- Blend the pandan leaves with 200 ml of water and strain the juice to obtain a fragrant water.
- Make the white layer: mix the rice flour, starch, coconut milk and salt in a bowl.
- Make the green layer: mix the starch, sugar, coconut milk, pandan water and colouring in another bowl.
- Heat the white layer in a pan over medium heat, stirring, until it thickens, about 5 minutes.
- Pour the white layer into an oiled 20 cm tin and let it set for 5 minutes in the fridge.
- Heat the green layer, stirring until thickened, then gently pour it over the first layer.
- Let it set for 1 hour in the fridge before unmoulding.
- Cut into diamonds and serve cold or at room temperature.
Variations and tips
Version without colouring. Keep the green layer natural with just the pandan water, giving a paler colour but just as fragrant.
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Original Ecomely recipe.

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